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9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum
originBy surface analysis, green + gage. See alternative etymology below, as this is incorrect: the etymology for gage is a back-formation from greengage. alternative etymology The legend goes that Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave, (c. 1656–1727), had a shipment of plums from France, in which the labels of the reine-claude got lost, by which reason his gardener called it after his master.…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- reengage 10
- engager 9
- gagger 9
- engage 8
- ganger 8
- grange 8
- nagger 8
- raggee 8
- reggae 8
- enrage 7
- genera 7
- renege 7